Patrick Dennis: 20 books
by Patrick Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Following in the tradition of Auntie Mame, bestselling author Patrick Dennis turns his wicked satirical pen on the insane world of fictional film director Leander Starr. Fleeing the IRS, creditors, and jilted lovers, Starr holes up in a Mexico City apartment—Casa Ximenez—with his faithful valet,...
Auntie Mame
An Irreverent Escapade
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
With a wit as sharp as a vodka stinger and a heart as free as her spirit, Auntie Mame burst onto the literary scene in 1955--and today remains one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction.
Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis’ Auntie Mame...
by Patrick Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Encore, Encore! The brilliant sequel to the smash bestseller Auntie Mame is back and the reviews are in . . .
Little Me
The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television/Belle Po itrine/as told to
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Back in print at last! From the author of Auntie Mame: the bawdy, bestselling, bountifully illustrated autobiography of an imaginary diva whose life is one hilarious mishap after another.
For Belle Poitrine, née Mayble Schlumpfert, all the world's a stage and she's the most important player...
Harvesting Darkness
Essays on Literature, Myth, Film and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
As Dennis Patrick Slattery's writing shows, the very stuff of the great traditions is life itself, and the hurly-burly of current culture is the ground in which tradition thrives. Slattery's analyses are keen and thoughtful, often scholarly, and always deeply spiritual. But they are better for being...
by Dennis Patrick Best
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Max Rust: Fifth Grade baseball star. Boy Scout. Altar boy. Private Eye. It's that last part Melanie Olive is interested in when she hires Max to track down her missing report on Saint Jude the Apostle. Max finds himself up against the Catholic parochial education system. It's certainly not the first...
Reluctant Warriors
Canadian Conscripts and the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
During the “Hundred Days” campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were generally considered slackers for not having volunteered to fight. Reluctant Warriors is the first examination of the pivotal role played...
Simon's Crossing
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Enter the biblically historic world of Simon of Cyrene, where a world of grief, revenge, and Dennis Patrick Slattery and tender devotion awaits. There, families are torn apart, marauding soldiers enact their violent ways, and random events suddenly disrupt life. Along this journey there will be encounters...
Day-To-Day Dante
Exploring Personal Myth Through the Divine Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Dante has it right: we are on more than a journey; we are on a pilgrimage. Author Dennis Patrick Slattery, who has been teaching Dantes works for more than twenty years, believes that our life stories are embedded in the journey of this pilgrim. In Day-to-Day Dante, Slattery presents passages from...
by Dennis Patrick McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
International economic integration is not a recent phenomenon; its roots can be traced back to the Roman Empire. This informative volume departs from the conventional short-term analysis and takes a long-term view of the process, offering perspectives that are both detailed and diverse.
Author...
A Limbo of Shards
Essays on Memory Myth <Br>And Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
"A glance at these 30 essays reveals Professor Slattery's astoundingly vast and varied range of scholarly interests....These disciplines function for Dennis as modes of knowing, modes of imagining."
--Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University.
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Minnesota Twins
The Complete Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Major League Baseball came to the Minnesota prairie in the spring of 1961, and in the fifty years since, the Minnesota Twins have held a cherished place in the hearts of sports fans throughout the region. With Hall of Famers like Harmon Killebrew, Rod Carew, and Kirby Puckett and beloved characters...
by Anne Murphy, Sonia Ospina, Ashly Pinnington
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Social care needs excellent leaders now more than ever. Effective leaders aim high, listen to what the service users want and need, inspire their staff and continually question what they are doing and why.
This book draws together the latest research on fundamental leadership issues in social...
by Dennis Patrick Leyden, Albert N. Link
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Inadequate investment in innovation is particularly costly in today's globally competitive environment where continued technological advancements are critical to sustaining economic prosperity. The government has a critical role in ensuring that society's general interest in innovation, and the public...
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